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Glenn is in Gladstone in Queensland.

Hey, Glenn, welcome.

Are you with us, Glenn?

In fact, it's considered to be what some will call an anti-Semitic trope.

And to draw out those sorts of things almost as an excuse to go deeper with a level of anti-Jewishness or anti-Semitic position is That tends to be around the way that people draw out that whole thing that everybody's rich and they're controlling the banking.

Hey, Glenn in Gladstone, thank you so much for your call.

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Trev is on the line with us.

Hey, Trev, whereabouts are you calling from? Gladstone.

From Gladstone in Queensland.

Trev, what are your thoughts for our conversation today?

Well, it can be shown that October 7 was caused by unprotected borders, meaning the security was told not to take their usual posts, meaning the ruling class of Israel actually wanted October 7, as an excuse to start war against the Palestinians.

It would have brought Standard Gauge through to Western Queensland.

The long-term plan was to connect that up with Gladstone.

You probably know, your listeners might not, though, but in the last budget, when they did massively increase taxes based on lies, the Government also stripped nearly $5 billion of funding from the inland rail.

It will now stop at parks.

in central western New South Wales sort of halfway from where it was meant to go and that money has been redirected to build the suburban rail loop in Melbourne to try desperately to save a failing Labor government down here it was a patently uh political exercise to deny our country those nation building benefits to prop up uh the bad polling results down in victoria now i don't think it's going to work i think the people here in victoria want to change and i hope they do deliver that in a month's time but we remain committed to get that inland rail built we're happy to have a look there is there are some cost blowouts or some issues about getting the rail down the range And so there are other options.

Maybe we could take it to Gladstone.

We're going to look at that.

And that would bring those central Queensland areas, those coal resources, those gas resources, hooked up with the rest of the country.

But I'll give you one example.

Today in Australia, I announced support for Rio Tinto, a big fossil fuel company, but to electrify one of the things that they do in Yarwin, which is in Gladstone in North Queensland, and that'll save It's expensive.

It's like high heat is something which is very hard to abate, actually taking something which needs to be 1,500 degrees Celsius to work.

Traditionally, electricity can't do that.

In New South Wales, Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Sullivan Bay, which is Port Phillip near Melbourne now.

Moreton Bay, Port Phillip District, Port Curtis, which is up near Gladstone in Queensland.

Right.

And she said, you've just got them in New South Wales.

I'm Georgia Athanasellis and today I'm thrilled to be joined by Kylie Devney, the Legal Practice Director at Byrne Lawyers.

Kylie joined Byrne Lawyers in 2010 when it was a Gladstone firm of 13 staff.

Since then, it has transformed into a regional practice that stretches across central Queensland with offices in Gladstone, Bundaberg and Biloela, with 65 staff and 21 solicitors, many of whom work part-time or completely remotely.

Kylie's business model is one that embraces flexibility and growing regional talent, and I'm so grateful that she's joined me to discuss all the delights and difficulties of operating such a unique regional practice.

Kylie Devney, welcome to The Call Over.

Thank you very much.

What a lovely intro.

You were born and raised in Gladstone, but came to Brisbane to study arts law at the University of Queensland.